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Monday’s here again, so we have a new Fantasy with Friends prompt to consider! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is all about magic systems: What are some of your favorite magical...
Deadest Blog Days of Summer, the days surrounding July 4th, so I am compelled to post (and to post ahead of day after tomorrow when I post one of two posts a year not tagged My Complicity) to see if this can be the least read post of the...
Another warm day in London found us taking the shortish trip by Tube to Kew to see not only the magnificent botanical gardens but also the large collection of sculptures by Henry Moore dispersed throughout. Here are a few snaps I took on...
Huh? What? It's like an index, but reversed. Instead of helping you navigate my blog, I'm helping myself navigate everyone else's. Each hex links to a Spiceomancy-certified all time club banger post. Go ahead, click one! Oh, like an...
It was a busy social week and I’m very tired. On Tuesday Rosa had some leaving drinks and there were too many shots. On Wednesday we had our annual sports / rounders day at work and it was great fun. I participated in the tug of war and...
Can you correctly answer the questions on the civics test that people who wish to be U.S. citizens must be able to correctly answer?
Book Review: GPU-Accelerated Computing with Python 3 and CUDA Amazon Packt Niels Cautaerts on Medium Hossein Ghorbanfekr on GitHub I was offered to read GPU-Accelerated Computing with Python 3 and CUDA by Niels Cautaerts and Hossein...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
I just stumbled upon a 2024 blog post by Robert Alexander (@alexsci.com) that offers a brief history of the blogroll and why it is still relevant today, in a post entitled "RSS blogrolls are a federated social network". At its core a...
A robot works deep underground for a civilisation long since disappeared (that would be us). It is a lonely existence and when a cat strays from the surface and finds its way down to the bot’s subterranean lair, what’s a cat expected to...
My second retrospective of original songs – Written on the Water – is now available to buy on CD as well as to stream and download via BandCamp. Find out more about the album and its conception here and here.
Numbers 200 miles 14,000 ft elevation gain 70:30 paved:unpaved Description This route starts in Portland and follows a 200-mile loop. Traveling counter-clockwise, the southern half follows the Trask River through the Tillamook Forest....
Daily writing promptIs a little chaos actually good for us?View all responses I’m just going to invert that question a little and ask: Is a little order good for us? I’m doing this because the question “Is a little chaos good for us?”...
If you read anything about health or longevity, you’ll soon find yourself in a world of hazard ratios. Some study might say that eating more fiber might change your risk of dying by a factor of HR = 0.90. Another might say that...
Hello, loves! No, a DEFECT, and a serious one. All hands on deck! Red Alert! OWOOGAH OWOOGAH! We were going to do some design this morning, but because I wanted to show some random dungeon layouts, I turned on the code that places Dot as...